Abstract
Careers in psychiatry which commence straight after house jobs are now commonplace and an informal tradition by which future child psychiatrists worked in paediatrics before training in psychiatry is nowadays less rehearsed. Recently, one of the St George's psychiatric registrar rotations arranged a six month post as a community child health doctor (community clinical medical officer) for a psychiatric registrar (JD) who had expressed an interest in child psychiatry as a career but lacked experience in paediatrics.
Highlights
Careers in psychiatry which commence straight after house jobs are commonplace and an informal tradition by which future child psychiatrists worked in pleasesdiraethriecasrsbeedf.oreRetrcaeinntilnyg, ionnpesyocfhiathtrey Sist nGoweoardgaey'ss psychiatric registrar rotations arranged a six month post as a community child health doctor for a psychiatric registrar (JD) who had expressed an interest in child psychiatry as a career but lacked experience in paediatrics
We examine the contribution of experience in caodmolmesucennitty pscyhcilhdiathryealitnh thtoe ltirgahintinogf thine crehgilidstraarn'sd experience adding the perspectives of a consultant and senior registrar in child psychiatry who had previously worked in community child health. poCraorymmdeusncietyndecnhtisldohf ethaletholddo'cstcohrosolardeocthtoersc'o. nTtehmey ainretwnootgtrraadinesin: gthepossetnsiofor r(ScoCnMsuOlt)anatndsttahtues'obrduitnaerxyis' t clinical medical officer (CMO), the latter being roughly comparable with a registrar
For many child psychiatry trainees, experience of normal children is very limited. This places them at a disadvantage when asked to comment upon whether a given behaviour or emotional response is within normal limits
Summary
For many child psychiatry trainees, experience of normal children is very limited. This places them at a disadvantage when asked to comment upon whether a given behaviour or emotional response is within normal limits. Community paediatric experience with large numbers of normal children enables doctors to become familiar with the progress and vicissitudes of normal psychological development amnedntacaqsuitroe athechsikldil'sl todefvoerlmopma eqnutaicl,k gplhoybsailcajludagned mental health
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